Perception is Reality
A good artist knows that playing with people's perception is the easiest way to make them feel your desired outcome. A magician or con-artist will manipulate your ways of perceiving what's going on around you and your surroundings, while an artist may create a sculpture that changes depending on your stance, and perception in relativity to the art piece. These are examples of how fluid and fake human’s perception can be, and while these fun activities can be mildly harmless perception can also be a dangerous thing.
One of the most common distinctions in society are based off perceptions of the masses. Ideas such as ‘the homeless are dirty’, ‘the pure wear white’, and ‘this person has everything’ not only affect the perceptions of said masses with these ideas, but the people they’re pushing these ideas onto. A good example of this is in a poem …show more content…
That’s what makes humans so unique and messy. The way you view yourself, your actions and words, may be completely different than how your grandmother or best friend may. This comes down to perceptions, actions and consequences. You may saying something and do something and not think to much of it because you perceived the action and decided it was appropriate. Nevertheless, your action was perceived differently by your aunt and now the consequence is having greatly offended her. It seems a common repercussion of this perception, action, consequence cycle is suicide. ‘Jeremy’ by the band Pearl Jam shows a young boy who ‘seemed a harmless little fuck’ line 16 but that perception by the signer was wrong. Jeremy used his class in order to execute a public suicide, he perceived himself as worthless and dejected so acted on that by killing himself, leading to a rather unpleasant consequence for his classmates and
A good artist knows that playing with people's perception is the easiest way to make them feel your desired outcome. A magician or con-artist will manipulate your ways of perceiving what's going on around you and your surroundings, while an artist may create a sculpture that changes depending on your stance, and perception in relativity to the art piece. These are examples of how fluid and fake human’s perception can be, and while these fun activities can be mildly harmless perception can also be a dangerous thing.
One of the most common distinctions in society are based off perceptions of the masses. Ideas such as ‘the homeless are dirty’, ‘the pure wear white’, and ‘this person has everything’ not only affect the perceptions of said masses with these ideas, but the people they’re pushing these ideas onto. A good example of this is in a poem …show more content…
That’s what makes humans so unique and messy. The way you view yourself, your actions and words, may be completely different than how your grandmother or best friend may. This comes down to perceptions, actions and consequences. You may saying something and do something and not think to much of it because you perceived the action and decided it was appropriate. Nevertheless, your action was perceived differently by your aunt and now the consequence is having greatly offended her. It seems a common repercussion of this perception, action, consequence cycle is suicide. ‘Jeremy’ by the band Pearl Jam shows a young boy who ‘seemed a harmless little fuck’ line 16 but that perception by the signer was wrong. Jeremy used his class in order to execute a public suicide, he perceived himself as worthless and dejected so acted on that by killing himself, leading to a rather unpleasant consequence for his classmates and